Just lost some hours trying to get this working on my Jaunty installation. I also found that modifying the fontconfig.properties file resolved the problem. I'm currently using fr_BE.UTF-8 as my locale.
The remaining problem does not come from some bug in the jdk, but only the UTF-8 fonts configuration. The fontconfig.properties file contains the following line: sequence.allfonts.UTF-8=latin-1,wqy-zenhei,japanese-vlgothic,japanese-kochi,japanese-sazanami,korean-un,korean-baekmuk,bengali,oriya,telugu If you remove the last three groups it solves the problem. It seems the openjdk code tries to get a maximum character size, and since the bengali,oriya,telugu characters takes more vertical space than latin-1 one, the global vertical space is increased. For info, Sun's jdk (as seen in the sun-java6-jdk package) does not include those fonts. I did not searched who is responsible of this fontconfig.properties file Ubuntu, Debian or upstream, but either there is a more compact font for those languages, or they should be removed from the list (as other languages like hindi, tamil, ...) -- openjdk label display in swing ui elements takes up too much vertical space https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/255983 You received this bug notification because you are a member of OpenJDK, which is subscribed to openjdk-6 in ubuntu. Status in OpenJDK: Confirmed Status in “openjdk-6” source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in openjdk-6 in Ubuntu Hardy: Triaged Status in openjdk-6 in Ubuntu Intrepid: Triaged Status in openjdk-6 in Ubuntu Jaunty: New Bug description: i am on Ubuntu 8.04.1, effect is the same on i386 and amd64, Package: openjdk-6-jre, Version: 6b11-2ubuntu2 Swing UI elements (lists, labels) have additional vertical space, some applets user interfaces are therefore broken with openjdk. In contrast sun-java6-jre works fine with tvbrowser and other applets. I attached a good and a bad png-image. The java program to render the example is ugly but still useable with openjdk but i think the error is shown clearly in comparison of the bad openjdk.png with the good sun sun-java.png. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openjdk Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openjdk More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
